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James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a "folk poet," emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnographic insights he gave as a farmer in the midwestern United States that experienced dramatic social change after the Civil War.

This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism and brings together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women's menopausal positionality within literary works.

This book examines the history and fallout of Christian orthodoxy, especially evangelical orthodoxy in the United States. It concludes that orthodoxy functions as an ideology of power as much as a barometer of "correct belief" and that understanding this dimension of orthodoxy can help inhibit its most dangerous outcomes.

Volume one of Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular void-with its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienation-from the first-person perspective of an aesthete who, lacking any epistemic or moral foundations, grows increasingly obsessed with what he calls "the interesting." In a close explication of the history of that aesthetic concept and a thorough exegesis of this volume, Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf Voracious Hermeneutics in Either/Or I explores the aesthete's views on beauty, opera and music, tragedy and comedy, time, unhappiness, the difference between suffering and pain, boredom, eroticism, deception, and seduction, along with the ways in which these precipitate the ambition for increasingly interesting experiences. In this examination, Anthony Eagan thoroughly reveals Kierkegaard's own perspective on how an exclusively aesthetic attitude can lead to an ever-more voracious tendency to interpret the world in a private, self-defeating, and unscrupulous fashion-one arising from and ultimately leading to moral solipsism and despair. This book develops a comprehensive understanding of Either/Or I that is crucial for understanding the rest of Kierkegaard's authorship.

A kaleidoscope of contemporary thought and current events in the human and social sciences, based on an analysis of published essays from around the world. A new way of looking at and interpreting the meaning of organizational management, based on often forgotten notions such as tact, practical wisdom and negative capabilities.

Punk Beyond the Music investigates where punk has manifested and mutated, tracing its transformation from a music genre into a far-reaching cultural aesthetic. Focusing on punk's most recurring traits-DIY, attitude, outsider identities, symbols, and politics-the author examines their appearance in various arts and cultural practices.

Philosophy of Jazz discusses the philosophical relevance of jazz, showing that jazz and European art music have more in common than many assume.

India, Citizenship, and Refugee Crisis: Political History of Hatred and Sorrow examines the effects of the Partition of India in 1947 from economic and social points of view.

This book explores how music is sacramental: able to serve as a means of divine revelation and transformative grace by way of a sacramental dynamic. Through participation in the mysteries of incarnation, beauty, contemplation, and fruitfulness, music is granted a pastoral value in the spiritual life.

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read dialogue. The book argues that to read the Republic through the lens of necessity is to reimagine what this pervasive concept might mean for us and for the limits of human reason.

Drawing on twentieth-century philosophy of science and language, this book identifies three requirements for widespread factual agreement: a pervasive habit of checking assumptions, densely connected communities, and projects that straddle those communities. When communities are insulated from each other, belief segregation follows.

This book offers advice to academics on building resilience and resistance to forces that undermine well-being by drawing on ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous cultures, Jungian psychology, and contemplative practices from around the world.

This timely volume assembles leading authorities on the theory and applications of Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation, the world's foremost evidence-based philosophical counseling modality, demonstrating its broad scope and potential for tackling life problems for diverse populations.

This book examines employers' role in creating, upholding, and legitimating race-gender inequality on trains, planes, and cruise ships and focuses on employer's actions and statements related to racial and gender hierarchies among their workers.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship: Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities in Africa analyzes the limitations of top-down intervention programs designed by the state to address the problem of unemployment among marginalized communities in Africa and foregrounds the centrality of IKS in fostering entrepreneurship. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Innocent Moyo, and Lethiwe Zondo examine the solutions to these problems within the ongoing debate on decolonization of knowledge and epistemic justice. The contributors argue that when the voices of the marginalized communities are taken into consideration in the design of employment and entrepreneurship policies, there are possibilities that such policies could be more effective, affirming the agency and rights within these communities. Using case studies and theoretical research, this book investigates how a better engagement with marginalized communities and indigenous knowledges in the design of entrepreneurship and employment policies could foster more positive outcomes? This book enriches the conversation on how recentering the voices of indigenous youths in the design of entrepreneurship programs can be done in due regard to the interests, priorities, and challenges of the communities.

Through a series of African case studies, this book critically examines the complexities of recent resource discoveries of mineral, oil, and gas to determine whether Africa stands on the cusp of a post-resource-curse era or if historical patterns of the resource paradox will continue to persist.

This book investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary bachelorette parties, this volume creates a rich panorama of Poland's cultural, social, and political transformations.

This book offers various cases of "literary recycling" that set the term free from the derogatory vision that associates it with repetition and creative exhaustion. It studies recycling as a transformative process breathing new life into the remnants of the literary text and generating new circuits of meanings.

This book takes the city of Trieste as a starting point to think critically and comparatively about migration, border regimes, and memories of displacement.

For too long, the human heart has been treated as no more than a physical organ that pumps blood. Recently, scientific evidence has emerged to show the heart is so much more. Zara Yacob's Inauguration of Modernity and Cardiocentrism adds to the groundbreaking argument that the heart is also a thinking organ, a function that is always attributed to the human brain. The argument is marshalled with evidence and spiritual compartment. Following an insight from seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher Zara Yacob, and in conversation with both Kemetian (ancientEgyptian) thought on the philosophical status of the human heart and contemporary discussions on the hard problem of consciousness, Teodros Kiros argues that the heart is both a physical organ that pumps blood and a spiritual organ that originates thoughts, which it shares with the brain. Together they empower us to be compassionate, empathetic, generous, and sincere.

This collection explores the shift in focus towards South Korea as a beacon of future societies, and examines South Korea's transformation into a smart country with advanced industrial capitalism and explosive soft and hard power effects, positioning it as a key architect of societies to come.

This book demonstrates the intersection of poetry and the practice of Jungian analysis through the metaphor. It enriches language in the emotionally alive psychoanalytic process and establishes that interpretation uses the metaphorical process in the client and the analyst to restore the diminished metaphor capacity.

Consisting of contributions from international scholars in diverse fields, Beauclair and Toth's collection asks how humanity might free "nature" from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means.

This work critically examines the influence of Western multinational companies in South Asia. The author analyzes television commercials and demographics in Bangladesh, arguing that companies exploit cultural differences to create deceptive advertising in developing countries and revealing a symbiotic relationship between stakeholders.

Digital Technology and Communication Policy in Korea: From Infrastructure to Artificial Intelligence explores the overlap of politics, policy, and digital development in Korea. Despite attention to digital development and its socio-economic effects across the nation, more research must be devoted to studying how Korean communication policymakers and authorities have coped with innovative technologies and a rapidly changing communication landscape. Chang Yong Son argues that communications policymakers must balance regulatory safety and security commitments against the promotion of innovation and growth in the communication market. Scholars of communication, media studies, technology studies, and Asian studies will find this book of particular interest.

Education and International Development, 2000-2020 advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. The author argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development.

The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer.

This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under the Stalinist rule. It is written as a group biography of five authors, whose literary home was in Kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1934 to 1991.

This book examines psychedelic rave music and culture with an emphasis on the multiday phantasmagoric festivals.

Concentrating on economic incentives, climate extremes, and fear of violence factors, this book presents a complete picture of what happens to migrants from the time they leave to the time they arrive in the United States-as well as the difficulties encountered by those deported back to their countries of origin.